San Siro is not suitable for € 2032. The new stadium is in the balance between bureaucratic obstacles, political oppositions and an investigation into urban planning
Milan risks losing the European football European. A paradoxical situation for the city that hosts Milan and Inter and which until a few months ago was authoritative candidate as the seat of a Champions League final in 2026 or 2027. The scenario, however, has changed and the standards that UEFA requires to the two countries that will host the 2032 edition of the European Championship, Italy and Turkey, exclude the current San Siro.
The verdict emerged in a meeting that involved the mayor Beppe Sala, in the frenetic hours of the multiplication of the news on the investigation that concerns him firsthand and his junta in terms of urban planning, the UEFA represented by Michele Uva and the managers of Milan and Inter.
The scenario is defined and leaves little room for interpretation: At present the old San Siro, who is also one of the iconic stadiums of European football, does not respect the parameters that will be requested for 2032. Even an important, but not total renovation, would not allow the Meazza to pass the UEFA exam. A paradox for a stadium that will be the scene of the inaugural ceremony of the Olympic Games of Milan Cortina in February 2026 and which was a candidate to host the Champions League final.
Milan has a year to present a dossier to UEFA who averts the danger of remaining without European. As? The main road seems to be that of the new stadium to be built by 2030 in the same area as the current one, once the administrative, bureaucratic and technical process that has come to life in recent weeks.
It is not a mystery, however, that The enemies of the new stadium are still active, as evidenced by the story of the appeal rejected by the Lombardy Tar who asked for the suspension of the sales procedurequestioning the opinion of the Superintendency on the date of the constraint on the second ring of the Meazza.
And on all the sword of Damocles of the investigation that the Milan prosecutor has opened and that concerns all the management of Milanese urban planning in recent years: an investigation in which the mayor Beppe Sala is registered in the register of suspects who by the end of July, should bring to the city council the sale of San Siro to Milan and Inter, not without tensions within his majority.
Milan is located at a crossroads: from a part of the final green light to the project of the two clubs, on the other the risk of being blocked in a stall that also has the bad planetary figure of not being able to enter the list of Italian cities chosen for the European Championship. Which UEFA would gladly avoid, but that today cannot be excluded a priori.
